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“Is it the function of the normal brain to hold the present cheaply and to honor only the distant past?”

Jesse is having his marty supreme moment

“There will be people in your life who claim that the future of the world is bleak. Listen to these people, be respectful to them, but never believe them.”

"A copy of a copy of a human being"

"Jesse was a survivor. Jesse did not have a personality. He did not want a personality."

'There was something desperate in his throat that urged the food down and demanded more. What if he didn't get enough? His stomach was an enormous open hole, a raw hole, a wound. He had to fill it with food. He had to stuff it.'

'"Never mind the pessimistic news broadcasts. Believe only what I tell you. I know how to interpret reality for you," he said.'

'She subsided into herself. Eating.'

'There is always a shame beginning deep in his father's face, a dark blood-red glow that creeps up from his throat.'

'The air looks as if it is coming apart - shredding into molecules of sand or grit. It is December 14, 1939.'